Tag: malaria

Study finds potential new weapon in fight against malaria

by Sara HUSSEIN Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — For years, insecticide-soaked mosquito nets have helped dramatically lower malaria infections, but insecticide resistance has driven a search for alternatives and a new study may have uncovered one option. The weapon is a familiar one: an anti-malarial drug already used by humans to prevent them contracting the disease, and researchers now envisage using it on netting like insecticides. Their research shows the drug works on mosquitoes, […]

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Researchers explore new way of killing malaria in the liver

by Ivan COURONNE with Nathalie OLOF-ORS in Basel Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — In the ongoing hunt for more effective weapons against malaria, international researchers said Thursday they are exploring a pathway that has until now been little studied — killing parasites in the liver, before the illness emerges. “It’s very difficult to work on the liver stage,” said Elizabeth Winzeler, professor of pharmacology and drug discovery at University of California San Diego […]

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Indonesia’s quake-hit Lombok battles with malaria, 137 infected

  MATARAM, Indonesia (AFP) — A malaria outbreak has infected at least 137 people in Indonesia’s West Lombok after the island was rocked by a series of earthquakes in recent months, an official said Sunday. The quakes and aftershocks since July have killed about 500 people and forced hundreds of thousands into evacuation shelters or tents. As a result the number of malaria cases is twice as high as in the same period last year, […]

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Some Marawi soldiers also affected by dengue, malaria, leptospirosis, dog bites

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The military revealed that some soldiers who are now in the final phase of military operations in Marawi City were affected by dengue, malaria, leptospirosis and even dog bites. The Armed Forces of the Philippines, however, assured that they were capable of giving aid to soldiers who were wounded or who fell ill in the city. AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said that there are aid stations in […]

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Mosquitoes more attracted to already-infected blood

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) — Swedish scientists have discovered that the malaria parasite in infected humans sends out a signal to attract mosquitoes to feed from them and continue the cycle of infection. Together with their colleagues, Professor Ingrid Faye of the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Noushin Emami, post-doctoral researcher at the Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University, discovered that the system helps the malaria parasite to spread and survive without killing the hosts. In a […]

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Lack of funds threatens malaria progress: WHO

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an “urgent need” for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report Tuesday. Overall, the number of new cases fell by 21 percent between 2010 and 2015, and mortality rates fell by 29 percent — 31 percent in the African region. But globally there were still 212 million new cases and 429,000 deaths last year, and 43 […]

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Countries agree to be malaria free

GENEVA, Switzerland (Eagle News) – According to the World Health Organization, member countries agreed to eradicate malaria by 2030. Said agreement came about in an assembly held at Geneva, Switzerland. Said agreement targets to lower malaria cases by 40% in 2020 and by 90% in 2030. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin)

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New malaria parasite enters Southeast Asia

A new strain of malaria, one that is drug-resistant, has been spotted in Southeast Asia, with the Philippines already preparing for said disease. The Department of Health is currently disseminating information about this new malaria strain, further adding the 50% of the provinces are already malaria free.

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Malaria is the leading killer in Central African Republic: aid group

By Mirjam Donath UNITED NATIONS Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:15pm EDT (Reuters) – As a recent ceasefire deal boosts prospects for peace in Central African Republic, a key medical aid group warned on Thursday that malaria was the leading killer in the impoverished landlocked country. Malaria, a life-threatening disease transmitted to people via mosquitoes, kills more than half million people a year, mainly infants in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors […]

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